Re: Requiring User Name and Password for Connection to Network Resourc

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:23:03 -0700, John Bigelow
<JohnBigelow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I work in an office with about a dozen people and their respective computers,
connected via a Peer to Peer LAN with one another and a shared network
storage device. In addition to using space on the shared storage device we
periodically wish to connect to shared folders on one anothers' computers.

My computer, and most if not all of the others in the office, run XP Pro
with SP2.

When I connect (or, rather attempt to connect) to another machine on the
network I understand that my computer automatically sends a user name and
password to the computer to which I'm trying to connect. I understand that
the user name and password sent are the user name and password under which I
logged on to my own machine.

I would like to change that behavior. I would like have my computer prompt
me to supply a user name and password to be passed on the remote machine each
time I attempt to connect.

I have the impression that once upon a time when I was looking for something
else, I saw an option somewhere in Windows for changing to the desired form
of behavior, but now that I want it, I can't find it anywhere.

Do any of you know how (or if) I can do this? If so, I would be grateful to
know how.

Thank you.

John

John,

If Advanced File Sharing is active, and you have a matching account on the
server, you should get access without prompting. That's how most folks like it.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Activate>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Activate

If you don't have a matching account on the server, and if the Guest account on
the server is not enabled, then the server should request that you authenticate
using an account / password that is on the server.

If the Guest account on the server is not active, and Simple File Sharing is
active, then you just won't get access.

See my article, and the referenced white paper from Microsoft:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#OtherOS>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#OtherOS

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.
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